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A Compact Cold-Atom Frequency Standard Based on Coherent Population Trapping

May 24, 2012
Author(s)
Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, John Kitching, Elizabeth Donley
We present the status of our cold-atom clock based on coherent population trapping, including the present clock stability and a preliminary evaluation of the three main systematic frequency shifts: the 1st-order Doppler shift, the Zeeman shift, and the

Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer

April 17, 2012
Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe, Tillman H. Sander, Jan Preusser, Rahul R. Mhaskar, John E. Kitching, Lutz Trahms
We report on the measurement of somatosensory-evoked and spontaneous magnetoencephalography signals with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. This uncooled, fiber-coupled sensor has a sensitive volume of 0.58 mm 3 inside a sensor head of volume 1 cm 3. When

Atom-number amplification in a magneto-optical trap via stimulated light forces

January 10, 2012
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Tara C. Liebisch, Eric M. Blanshan, John E. Kitching
We have decelerated an atomic beam of 87 Rb using a stimulated-emission slowing technique that makes use of a bichromatic standing light wave of high intensity and increased the load rate into a small magneto-optical trap by up to a factor of 20. We

Chip-scale room-temperature atomic magnetometers for biomedical measurements

September 14, 2011
Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe, Rahul R. Mhaskar, Jan Preusser, John E. Kitching, Lutz Trahms, Tillman H. Sander
We describe a portable 4-channel array of chip-scale atomic magnetometers in a flexible flying-lead configuration. These microfabricated, uncooled sensors with volumes below 1 cm 3 demonstrate sensitivities around 100 fT/Hz 1/2 and bandwidths of several

Atomic Sensors - A Review

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, Elizabeth A. Donley
We discuss the basic physics and instrumentation issues related to high performance physical and inertial sensors based on atomic spectroscopy.

Note: Detection of a single cobalt microparticle with a microfabricated atomic magnetometer

August 23, 2011
Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe, D. Maser, S. Pandey, H. Ring, Micah P. Ledbetter, John E. Kitching, Dimitry Budkerl
Detection of the magnetic signal of a single, 2 {um}m cobalt microparticle using an atomic magnetometer based on a microfabricated vapor cell is presented. These results represent an improvement by a factor of 10 in terms of the detected magnetic moment

MOT Loading Enhancement with Stimulated Light Forces

July 31, 2011
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Tara C. Liebisch, Eric M. Blanshan, John E. Kitching
We demonstrate atom number enhancement in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) by use of bichromatic cooling to slow an atomic beam that is loaded into a MOT. Bichromatic cooling employs stimulated emission to apply strong cooling forces that are not limited by

Status of a compact cold-atom CPT frequency standard

July 31, 2011
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, John E. Kitching, Eugene N. Ivanov
We describe the main progress towards the realization of a cold atom frequency standard based on coherent population trapping (CPT). We explain our particular CPT configuration and give details on the experimental setup.

Parahydrogen-enhanced zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe, T. Theis, P. Ganssle, G Kervem, M Ledbetter, D Budker, A Pines, John E. Kitching
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful analytical tool for determination of molecular structure and function, with broad impact in biology, medicine, materials science, and fundamental research. Conventionally, NMR is performed in multiTesla

Femtotesla atomic magnetometry in a microfabricated vapor cell

December 20, 2010
Author(s)
William C. Griffith, Svenja A. Knappe, John Kitching
We describe an optically pumped 87Rb magnetometer with 4.5 fT/Hz 1/2 sensitivity when operated in the spin-exchange relaxation free (SERF) regime. The magnetometer uses a microfabricated vapor cell, consisting of a cavity etched in a 1 mm thick silicon

Sub-micron force detection using optically-cooled levitated microspheres

September 3, 2010
Author(s)
Andrew Geraci, Scott B. Papp, John E. Kitching
We propose an experiment using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres for the detection of short-range forces. The center-of-mass motion of a microsphere trapped in vacuum can experience extremely low dissipation and quality factors of 10 12

Advances in Coherent Population Trapping for Atomic Clocks

August 10, 2010
Author(s)
John E. Kitching, Vishal Shah
We review advances in the field of coherent population trapping (CPT) over the last decade with respect to the application of this physical phenomenon to atomic frequency references. We provide an overview of both the basic phenomenon of coherent